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From Longman's Cultural Edition series, Howards End, edited by Douglas Mao, presents a wealth of critical and historical contexts for E. M. Forster's brilliant novel about clashing values and love for a house.
Art and commerce, nature and industry, idealism and pragmatism, women and men: the struggles, partings, and reconciliations between these pairs drive the narrative of one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. On its first release, Howards End was hailed as an extraordinary achievement. Never out of print since, it has attracted generations of readers with its splendid prose, its sensitive rendering of relationships, and its wickedly clever plot.
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List of contents
List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates
Howards End (1910)
Afterword
Contexts
Money
Currency
Distribution of Wealth
Incomes
Expenses
Early Reviews of Howards End
Anonymous, from the Times Literary Supplement (October 1910)
Anonymous, from the Standard (October 1910)
R. A. Scott-James, from the Daily News (November 1910)
Arnold Bennett, from The New Age (January 1911)
Leonard’s Reading
John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851—53)
George Meredith, from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
Robert Louis Stevenson, from Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
from “Virginibus Puerisque”
from “Walking Tours”
Richard Jefferies, from The Story of My Heart (1883)
The Condition of England
Edward Carpenter, from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure (1889)
Jack London, from The People of the Abyss (1903)
G. Lowes Dickinson, from A Modern Symposium (1905)
C. F. G. Masterman, from The Condition of England (1908)
Elizabeth Robins, from The Convert (1907)
England and Germany
E. E. Williams, from “Made in Germany” (1896)
Elizabeth von Arnim, from Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898)
Rudyard Kipling, “The Rowers” (1902)
West Africa and Imperialism
Mary Kingsley, from West African Studies (1899)
E. D. Morel, from Affairs of West Africa (1902)
J. A. Hobson,from Imperialism (1902)
Leonard Woolf, from Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920)
Culture and Bloomsbury
Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1882)
G. E. Moore, from Principia Ethica (1903)
Leonard Woolf, from The Wise Virgins (1914)
Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out (1915)
Works Cited in This Edition
Further Reading
E. M. Forster’s Writings
Biographical Studies
Critical Studies
Summary
Art and commerce, nature and industry, idealism and pragmatism, women and men: the struggles, partings, and reconciliations between these pairs drive the narrative of one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. One of the newest additions to The Longman Cultural Editions series, Howards End presents the complete text headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.
